Thanks to the folks at beagleboard.org, my shiny new Beagleboard has arrived! This is from the "Beagleboard Sponsored Projects Program" at http://beagleboard.org/contest. If you have an idea for a good project involving the Beagleboard, you can submit the details. Each week, two projects will be selected for a free board!
I've been looking into how to set the time correctly on my board, and in the process discovered a few details about time zones on Angstrom linux. By default, a basic Angstrom image doesn't include data specifying time zones, so will default to UTC time. To specify a time zone:
- Install the timezone data package:
opkg install tzdata - Look in /usr/share/zoneinfo to find the appropriate zone, mine was Australia/Sydney
- create a symbolic link to this file from /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney /etc/localtime - restart
Angstrom also has a file /etc/timezone which seems to be ignored - you might as well delete it. With the correct timezone set, you can now use NTP to automatically set the correct date and time:
- opkg install ntpdate
- ntpdate pool.ntp.org